Mel started as a designer and then shifted to develop herself in art. She won the Artist in Residence Award in the “6th Evora International Printmaking Competition” in 2009 and also held her first solo exhibition “Last Portrait” in the same year.

Mel uses a journalistic view to observe the ever-changing world and compares her surroundings to judge and understand herself. These observations and ideas are expressed in her art. Mel graduated from the University of Macau, majoring in Communications.

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Mel Cheong (Cheong Hoi I)

Artist Statement
[日本語下に]

People are special individuals, but capitalism created a nihilistic worldview that only money exists. By participating in this social game, people gradually lose their humane instinct as in pursuing the true happiness in life – making a society that goes in a repeated loop without any breakthrough. Thus, it is important to understand oneself. One can achieve the results from learning and comparing with each other, with people in the history who laid down ideas and visions through art and culture. Through art revelation – the process of appreciation, expression and dissection, Mel found her way to understand herself and exchanging her ideas and visions with people who shares the same moment she does.

These ideas set up as a base for us to make a better and sophisticated self. Mel’s pursuit in questioning the moment allows her to continue in exploring the relationship between herself and her art.

Mel started as a designer and then shifted to develop herself in art. She won the Artist in Residence Award in the “6th Evora International Printmaking Competition” in 2009 and also held her first solo exhibition “Last Portrait” in the same year.

Mel uses a journalistic view to observe the ever-changing world and compares her surroundings to judge and understand herself. These observations and ideas are expressed in her art. Mel graduated from the University of Macau, majoring in Communications. She is now teaching Mokuhanga Class in Macau.